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Seed storage
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Seed storage

Five months, or twenty-four

By Dwight Davis, Founder

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A germination test is only good for five calendar months before interstate shipment, unless the seed is in a hermetically sealed container, in which case it is twenty-four. The container is worth nearly five times the shelf life of the test, and the container weight decides what has to be on the label at all.

Getting started

Before the first packet.
Is this for you at allFrom harvest to packet

The label

What must be on it, and when.
What must be on itThe one-pound lineBelow standardTreated seed

The test date

Five months, or twenty-four.
Five months, or twenty-fourHermetically sealed, and what that asks of a packageWhen to retest

What goes wrong

Named failures, with the cause for each.
The test expiredBelow standard went unlabeledThe bulbs rotted in the jarThe seed lost viability

Containers

198 jars, and the one-pound line.
What we actually stock for thisSizes, and the pound lineClosures and liners

Tools and directories

Things to use rather than read.
The check, before the packets are printed
Written from 7 CFR 201.29, 201.29a, 201.30a, 201.31 and 7 U.S.C. 1571. Every page names its source.